VEHICLE ATTACK RECOGNITION AND RESPONSE PROGRAM

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Crossroads Training Academy regularly presents standard and customized programs in high-threat driving.  We have presented these courses to members of private industry and the public sector.

The VARR Program consists of two days of intensive, hands-on emergency driving training.  During the program, participants will add to the high-performance driving abilities acquired during the Basic Protection Driver Program and develop the necessary skills to safely conduct single and multiple protective vehicle operations in extremely high-risk environments and war zones.  This program is meant for the professional operator protecting at-risk principals and/or cargo in high-threat environments.

CLASSROOM SUBJECTS

 

Introduction to High-Risk Driving Operations

Participants will understand the operational differences between working in low and high risk environments.  Particular emphasis will be placed on the benefits and difficulties involved with team dynamics and multi-vehicle operations.

SUV’s in a High-Risk Environment

Though SUV’s are prone to untripped rollovers, a few simple driver inputs can allow anyone to drive an SUV in a high-performance manner during an emergency situation.  Participants will learn why SUV’s tend to experience untripped rollovers and how to avoid them.

Convoy/Motorcade Choreography

Participants will learn how to properly design, choreograph, and conduct a multi-vehicle operation in a hostile environment.  The design of both passenger vehicle motorcades and at-risk cargo transportation convoys will be examined.

Motorcade Security and Roadside Bombs

Roadside bombs and IED’s are becoming an increasingly popular method by which modern-day terrorists and bandits commit assaults on vehicle operations.  Participants will learn about the most common vehicle and roadside bombs and how to detect them.

PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Disabled Driver Exercises

Participants will practice taking command of a vehicle from the passenger seat and how to use maximum vehicle capability from disadvantageous seating positions.

Motorcade Operations Exercises

Participants will practice using high-performance driving concepts in multi-vehicle drills including:

• Aggressive traffic and suspicious vehicle lane blocking tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Emergency tandem maneuvers
• Arrivals and Departures (vehicle-to-foot and foot-to-vehicle EPD transitions)

*Vehicle Contact Exercises (Optional)

Participants will learn how to safely and effectively make contact from one vehicle to another including:

• Vehicle Ramming
• Disabled Principal Vehicle Push-Outs
• PIT and Counter-PIT Maneuvers

Vehicle Dismount Exercises

Once a principal vehicle is totally disabled during an attack the operators must rapidly and aggressively dismount their vehicle and move their principal to safety in another vehicle within the motorcade or some position of cover and concealment away from the ambush site.  Participants will learn how to safely and effectively choreograph a disabled principal vehicle dismount during a host of different ambush drills and scenarios.

*Note: These exercises can all be modified to be used with SUV’s and HMMWV’s and SUV/HMMWV high-performance and emergency handling techniques.